Sheet-steel wheel



.w. Iii-WILLIAMS. SHEET STEELWHEEL. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 18, I9I9- Patented Mar. 21, 1922.

PATENT OFFICE.

'WILLIAK ERAS'IUS WILLIAMS, 0] CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHEET-STEEL WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application fled September 18, 1919. Serial No. 324,498.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM Ems'rus IVILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sheet-Steel Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

h'ly invention relates to what is known as disk wheels made of a sheet or disk of metal for the web of the wheel instead of spokes.

The object of my invention is to provide such a disk wheel wherein the one disk forms not only the web of the wheel, but also the; outside hub. or false hub, which is demountablc from the regular hub of the wheel.

The invention is set forth in the claims.

Reference will be had to the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my wheel.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section.

Figures 3 and 4 are details of the rim companion flange.

1 indicates the inside of the hub that is normally on the axle and this hub is here shown as being of the type commonly used with demountable wire wheels.

2 indicates my disk, which forms the web of the wheel, and this disk is secured to the rim 3 by the rivets 4 and 5, parallel and perpendicular, respectively, to the general plane of the wheel. The rim is provided with a companion'flange (S and this flange 6 has an extension 7 that registers with a shoulder 8 on the vertical flange 9 of the main rim 3 and a series of blocks 10 are riveted on the back side of the flange 9 and furnish the threads for a series of screws 11 which fasten the companion flange 6 to the main flange of the rim. The companion flange 6 bears a part of the burden of the base of the tire as is indicated at 12.

The disk 2 is bulged at 13 in order to give stiffness and at the same time a certain amount ofelasticity to the disk. Immediately around the huh I provide a series of shortcorrugations 14 to stiffen the disk at this point, and on the inside summits of these corrugations I fasten an annular plate 15 into which I screw some little sockets 16 which are secured to the outer summits of the corrugations by rivets 17 and thus fur nish a seat for the registering pins 18 which look the disk against rotating on the inner hub. The ring 15 is secured by rivets 19 to the summits of the corrugations as above described.

The remainder of the hub 20 conforms more or less closely to outlines usual in what has been the practice heretofore with wire wheels and has an inclined surface 21 against which there screws a nut 22 threaded onto the axle at 23 in the ordinary manner.

A series of slits 24: are out through the bulge of the disk 2 to aid in giving resiliency to the disk.

\Vhat I claim is 1. The combination with a hub having near its inner end a rigid annular wheel disk seat, of a wheel disk drawn out forwardly to form a disk-bracing sleeve encircling the hub and having corrugations fitting said seat, and means for holding said corrugations against movement from their normal plane. v

2. The combination with a wheel hub and rim, of a disk secured to both, centrally drawn out into a loose hub sleeve, having near the rim a plane zone approximately parallel to the general plane of the wheel, dished between said zone and'the hub to form a bulge lying partly on each side of the vertical plane in which the load resultant usually acts.

In a wheel of the class described, a rim and a disk web, the said web secured to the rim outside or forward of the vertical plane in which the load resultant usually acts and the said disk dished inward forming a bulge on the inside of the said load plane of the wheel and this bulge merging into a cylindrical extension or projection extending outward and beyond the front face of the rim and forming an outside shell or hub, whereby the wheel is secured to the inner hub or the axle of the wheel.

4. The combination with a hub having near its inner end an inclined annular disk seat, of a disk having near its center corrugations resting on said-seat and drawn out forwardly to form a central outwardly converging disk bracing sleeve haxing its outer end rigidly connected to the outer end of the hub.

Signed at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this twelfth day of September, 1919.

WILLIAM ERAS'I'US WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

B. J. BERNHARD, J. B. JEFFE SON.

Patented Mar. 21, 1922. I 

